Biography

Allen Ginsberg was one of the founders of the literary "beat" movement of the 1950s. Along with kindred spirits Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and others, he freed literature from the shackles of linear narrative and conservative morality. His poetry spilled over into the music world as well, and he recorded with some of the same rock musicians he'd influenced with his groundbreaking poetry.

Top Tracks

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• A Black Horse Bends Its Head To The Stubble

• A Supermarket In California

• America

• Cia Dope Calypso

• Dope Fiend Blues

• Father Death Blues

• Future Speeding On Swift Wheels

• Going To San Diego

• Guru Blues

• Howl

• I'm An Old Man Now, And A Lonesome Man In Kansas

• Prayer Blues

• Prayer Blues - 1972

• Put Down Yr Cigarette Rag

• Thy Sins Are Forgiven, Wichita!

• Tyger

Discography

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• Wichita Vortex Sutra

  Artemis Records

  2004

• Howl and Other Poems

  Fantasy

  1998

• Lion for Real

  Mercury / Polygram

  1990

• Kaddish

  Water Music Records

  1966